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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1892-5-6, Page 66 THE BRUSBELO POST, CiSKLIOLD, BLUR MONDAY. innseTioNs Fon nom; A FAstibT wAsiiiso AND 1U' ISO, I httee alwaye thought Oita the weekly Waehlog ;vim the hardeet part of tho hone°. wot.k. When I wits young, otte waehing was tient ont to be done, mut ito I knew but little about using the wash burl until I WAS settled in my WO home. If niethers would oly teaoh their girle how te de all kinds of housework, hew ninth trouble it ;would save young housekeepers. When my girle were tall enough to 'stand at a tub and rubbing board, I taught thet how to wash the towel,' and imarAer clot be 'Dien they learned to waeh the table huei and next the pillow slips and sheete, etc There is hardly any garment that nerd rubbing all over. It should thoroughl washed and the dirty vets rubbed tioaped, before boiling. Fine muelin an lace, ought not to be put upon the board. I • • k , •• • •'• '' • 11 have not intich strength to rub iny clothes, It makes the olothes beautifully white, but they do not seem as nice and tame es they do when I follow dieted method, I use 0101 tablespoonful of kerosene to three of cold water, put it in the boiler mid add one pint of best soft soap or tinehalf cake • bard soap. Rub the elothes after soapht them, especially the dirty spots, pet thei into the water while it is void and let thei boil 20 minutes or one-half tot hour. Alway he snre ant/ have soap enougle itw if snap ; settle, there will he a sticky, gleamy sem artntml the sides of the v and in tit rinsing water. The clothes ehoultl wel rinsed and blued. Some people put their clothes to soak th night before washing and put spoonful o kerosene in with the scup and water, usually sheve e. half a bar of good latunir soap and boil in a kettle of water until die solved. This will do for a washing for si persons. wiTax iticsii IS STAINED. with tea, coffee or fruit I spread it over a pail or tub and pour boiling water through the stains. I poue the dissolved soap into two tubs and pour in lukewarm water enough to cover the clothes. The fine white clothing I put in one tub, the coarser art- icles in the other tub, let them stand an hour or uttil I get mer breakfast dishes 'washed, then I Avash the table linen, flue shirts, cuffs and collars, sheets and pillow slips. Have the boiler perfectly clean. If it is rusted, make a bag of white cloth large enough to hold the clothes and put theta into it while boiling. Cut one quarter bar of soap in smell pieces and lay in tho water -with an onece of sal soda and let them boil for hull an hour. After washing the white clothes and the coarse towels, etc., I wash the common prints and rinse well, starch and bang out If the man's socks are brown cotton I -wash them in the same water and cotton overalls, etc., and scald, rub and Hese in other waters and hang out: Women's black hose should be washed in clean, warm water with soap; rinse well. Men's woolen socks may be washed in the Same water. Iliennels, blankets, etc., should be washed in clean suds made of the nicest white laundry soap, web rinsed in clean hot or (told water, well sleeken out and hung in an airy place to dry. When my clothes have boiled I take thou into a tub of cold water, wash them up and down so as to get the soap out and wring them Into another tub of clean wtwer. 1 rime well and wring them into another water slightly blued. t soul that poor washers always use a large quantity of inatztxci To min THE 01111 seam. an1 runlet; teeould be iron,;,1 first. 1 think it foolish to tire oee'e tielf too meal with ironinm g ernaou elothes. Steritheil clothen ehould be ironed well, Clonoiton elothes may be slighted. (Inc likes to see 1;:i.de tine teethes, mid theme whioh tire laiti away tor shliness well 'rimed, but shoots thot. are ti ha used soon and other clothing t my be elteletel, or net waned. Theee y l 1,, eibliel tied afterst•artie h dung • tliied, and the deed mother ean have a short re., 113 breathe and rest and read. Clothea bo theroughly aired before they are wurn. Never put damp clothing into a tit wers or trunk ti lay and mildew, end cite anger the life td the wettrer, Molex IYiersoe, a 1 . • A Muscular Sewing Machine, sewing-uutehine his been invented, „ which tht Chieago ite Comm; ree ✓ alleges, oitehee etteile, unit rapidly through • layere of leather ilvemightlis Dine Mel; in a this havirg beim atmomplished ell the tiro exhibitory trial ; in is second trial stiteints weie mole evenly and rapidly three i 1 pie,» id hied m -e.; e maple term., eighths id :te Melt thielc; and in it third test, thestin itetvereniarktileo feat was achieved-. • that tif sewing through a layer of brass oue,e'ght of an hal titiA, placed between pieties of leather. Roughness or the Skin, BKOKBLBSS POWDER IN WAR, AGRICULTURAL, U Oleos nittny elletwitages to the Side That. lug the ,ittnelc. The introdection of emokeleespowiler 1100 had eonsiderable fte 40 with a change of tactics on t•lie tickl of Little. In the itheoaeu ; of ehe smelt° seinen no kith shies, the coin; I piny ollieers not only lind it taster to wed • together, but can eontrol their me, matt judge the aka of the et e on 1 he enemy to a it greater th•gree then wee irmerly pee. sible. From their ;phi of view this inereae. et1 power of control more then vonipeneatte; the 'Meek for the deereencel fiteility of cou• eeitheent s uokulees powder eenfees on the defenee. It is true tbat the latter also prou fits by tlw sante inereaectl pewee of control, lent they argue that front the nature of things the defense, titeiving only to proveet. being beaten, matereite the at tack lights with the detertninatiou to win, tee letter is in tI position to make fox better use of thin new powder than the former. Put in another Lorin it comes to this: The heavier and more accent' e the fire whistling over a trench, the herder it is to melte men reise their beetle over it to take aim, Smokeleits powder makee, it easier Inc the attack to de, liver ench n lire; henee the dilliculties of the defenee will be inueeneed. Further, in the itleteutm of emoke, men stationery on the defence eremite eseape the if clepresionginiluenee of the dead and wound. 3 ngrom tle ed 1 l , ti a A cold twain of ehuttcc is one of the beet It prepare: eine tor roughiteee of the skin pro- I dueed I•y whit or eunlawn. To make this, 8 mix titgether four oumee of oil of almonds, rn I half rai it twee of white wax and half eu mime, e of eperiniteet i. Those ingredients ehonlil be 1 Put hi an ettrthen jar. A a old Dundee mar- melaile jar is -useful for the purpose. Set, e the air in a eaneepan of water and mix the f ingredieets thoroughly together. Whim 1 . the mixt ure is a smooth liquid stir in two ' ' ninnies ot eraegoelower water. Mix well and pour the mixture into any ornamental x earthen jars which you nety possess. This ovate to tench better than the cold creams esually sold in shops, ae these ere often matle of lard, which easily penetrates into the pores and totals to make the skin coarse. Moreover, all unguents which act on the skin in this way Mine the unhappy reputa- tion of making the skin flabby and produe • in wrinkles. Vaseliee is sometimes avoid- ed. by women, owing to its alleged tendency to produce a growth of superfluous hair. Sitnple olive oil is also an excellent ueguent to me on the skin. There is no daugor from the use of these vegetable oils, A great many persons with a naturally dry skin Ilse a little simple oil after bathing, and for this purpose a vegetable oil, like oil ot almonds or olive oil, is tc be preferred to anything else, Clothes should always be well shaken out when put out to dry. If one is in a hurry to get the clothes dried quickly they may be passed through the wringer a second time. After they are dry they ought not to Intug and switeh as it soils thetn and wears them out, They may be taken from the line when slightly damp and folded end laid in the basket. Tablecloths iron better to trinke quite damp and lay awhile and afterwards stretoh, a person standiog at etteh end. I never starch tablecloths unless they are red and then oidy slightly. I have slightly starched red uapkins. They seem nicer done so. If I have many colored prints I make near starch, two tablespoonfuls of flour to three quarts of boiling water. First stir the flour into a half pint of cold water until it is all smooth ; and then pour it into the water while boiling and stn. well. After cooking add two spoonfuls, of fine salt and a bit oflard; strain through the herb stt ainer. By blueing it a little it may be used fora]1 but the fine starching and stays m the clothes better than lumpy starch. Clothes that are starched seem nicer if well ironed and they keep clean much teen- er. If linen is made clamp before ironing it will have a fine gloss when well ironed, es en if it is not starched. Hold tbe sheets, next the pillow slips ; the towels and kerchiefs I spread in one pile with the napkins. I make att.= boiled stareh of the lump starch and clip the collate, cuffs, shirt fronts, ate., when 1 hang them out. When ironing I make cold starch, allowing two teaspoonfuls for every shirt and collar and ;MTh. I make the starch in a largo bowl. Dip the bosom or collar in and rub it so as to get the staroh well into the cloth, wring dry, fold and let it lay a few hours, I thiek it best to iron the starched clothes first before one gets warm and tired. (1101 ntoNs wins .Tom 1:1 tom should he kept where it 10 ry, away from steam, Never keep them in the lower oven of the range, for they will be injured by the conatant heat and will later be rough and fall al holes. It is well to wipe the irons al over with a damp cloth before heating. It removes all loose dirt and (males from the iron. Have a goad fire, but not too hot. , The ironing board should be covered with sievetal thicknesses of cloth and fastened tightly with tacks at sides and ends. Iron the towels and rho when doing the starch.. ed clothes, so as to keop the irons from burning; have a coarse paper end& cloth to clean the iron with, a little Nese= upon a paper will keep the iron smooth, Unfold the linen, end wipe it carefully with a clean cloth. The neck band of a shirt ahould be ironed firot, the beak may be folded in the °entre and ironed, then the,bands and alcoves. Next iron each eide of the bosom and beneath it. Smooth the bosom out, laying the folds straight. If there are wrinkles, let them come at the lower end of the bosom, wipe off carefully. Try the iron upon a paper or eloth and do not let it scorch. I commence at the right side first andiron up to the neelc-band ; after getting that smooth, iron the oe,,ter, and then tho other side. By ironing some time with a moderately warrn iron the linen iney have a belnitifnl polish. Lay the bosom on the front and fold the shirt each sido of the bosom back • of it, laying the &ewe, down smoothly, hang it upou the frames so hist the width of the -b000in will show, Bands nuil skew's Rouse:Work for Spring. At this scaeon nf the year, when spring npens, there are ordinevity iseme praterves mid sweet pickles left ever in the etoro ; closet, itill there ie entne debris of empty , Fans ;eel jelly etre en the shelyme which it , is better to see to before the warm weather comes. 11 they are met attended to now, in ample dine, it is quite likely that they will lc left till the new sanning season ar• rives, anti must he et -wiled into the multi- plieity of duties which conic at that, time. During the 000l days of April, before the vegetar cleaning time comes, it is well to put the cellar in order und to °tette out closets and pantries, and the preserve closet 1 is one ot the first, which demands attention. Little can be done with the old store of last year's pickles if they are kept over the , season, so it is better to use them up before warm oc•ather comes, there are few pickles that are better for keeping over the season. Walnut pickles, ono of tho very best pickles we heve, and welnut catsups are not considered thoroughly ripe till they are two years old. These, therefere, should be put up in bottles sealed up from the air, and when the store closet to cleared of its contente each bottle should be wrapped in paper 1(1 exclude all light. Anil while upon this enbject it should be remembered that a preserve closet should always be a dark eloset, if poseiblo, as light is always as de- structive as heat. In eAlitiou to darkness in the closet, however, it is ;eke to keep bottles of canned fruit Bud delicate pre- serves iu papers. All preserves and ell canned fruit and canned vegetables which are not likely to be used up before summer. 1 time should now bo wrapped up in fresh papers and set outside while the closet is being thoroughly cleaned. When this has been done to youe satisfaction and it is aired and dried, sprinkle abundance of powdered borax over the shelves. Put clean, white paper over them. The beet paper for such purpose is the white paper on which news papers arc printed, and a cheap quality of this can be purchased at 111 cents a quire of paper manufacturers. It pays to buy thorn though clean newspapers will answer the purpose. When the closet is onoe arranged with its ehelving table, set back those bottles and jars which have been wrapped up in paper to lost over the summer. Remember that the lowest shelf is the best place to put these, and not the upper, became the lowest /5 coolest in summer, and in ease of the contents workine they will not run over all tho other shelves. Put the presenes and pickles which you have selected to use up before summer in some pIaae by them. selves. Now attend to the etnply bottles, jelly bowls and pickle jars. Dust them all out, if they have been thoroughly washed, as they should have been, alter they were emptied, It is scarcely worth while to use all rubbers at ell, new ones are so very inexpensive and the risk is no gresain using old ones, It is well enough to buy it oom- pieta new supply for all jars. Pet all the covers on the jars, but leave the rubbers in the package in which they eame until you need to use then. Reverse all the jelly howls and pickle jars on the shelves, so the dust will not settle in them, for there ie no oloset, however tightly closed, where some recaliemn of dust will not drift in. When the closet is all in order shut it tight, and feel the satisfaction that when fruit comes in upon you of a sudden for pre- serving it svill not be neeessary to rush about and hunt up jars to store it away in. Ourions Portuguese OnSto in, Among the Portuguese at Fayed, where oneeopent a winter, writes Colonel Higgin- son, the young gentlemen were expected to wear black troneers to parties in winter, and white le snonner ; but to deckle on which partioular evening summer began was the point of difficulty, so the young gm would sometimes go to the house inblaok, with the white garments under their arms, ready to peep in through the window end take a hasty eensuo of blaok and white legs. If the latter prevailed they would make their toilet afreeh in the bushes outside, It woo not a :matter of social easto,,for they wore all of the same easto ; it was only% wish not tobe singular. The rarest thing in all Arizona, it is sad, is a thunder otorm. Sometitnes there lo not elm it year. hut the uttack leaves all theee evidences behind it. So here again the ielvituittgo is 00 its Hide. With referetwe to the question of the use of thee:oleo; pewder by the artillery, the general idea seems to lie Ora it was all a gain to the side \shish thought more of killing its enemy Dian of avoiding being killed itself. It enormously facilitates the maintenance of fire discipline within the battery, permits of continentiu Inc even at the most lapel rate, fur no smoke interferes with the laying e1 the glum, aud, above all things, them, the beam of the Men by en. abling them to seo the remelts of their fire. As a means of eoncealmeut it is of uo use at all, for even at exteetne rauges of :5,000 yards and upward the flash of discharge he always distinctly visible, and at fighting Lunges the flash enables one to note exactly the position of tne enemy's guns. Thi was not always possible with tho olcl pow- ders, for the smoke obscured the object and prevented 0310'9 picking up au exact point to aim at. The artillery will be far from regretting the loss of the two clouds which hung, the one iu froet of their own and the other in front of the euemy's guns. Smoke is a cover added to that furnish( d by the grotoul, end no one has over been anxious for hie oppon- ent to have covers which he himself could oot turn to advantage. If both are depriv- ed of this covet' victory will belong to him who, all else being equal, can mei skilfulle, supply the deficiency. Maneuvers will hereafter probehly take place orer lereer arum, before the actual fighting begins, and something of an Inli- tn'a creft aednateral keeonese will be need- I fel ou the part of staff officers, Smoke hes I been so good a cover on many occasious that I ito aletense will impose new contlitiops, and eatureletiv.e, will have to be emelt more ex- tensively utilized. With the vimishine poetry of the ontere battle the proeo of a new eea will begin, in which combat will be more like a game of chase in view of the pieces as a who,e, and new dispositions of old qualities and virtues will be waeted. Caution will pay in a smokelees combat, an. terprise auil vigcir will win as before, bnt blunders will reeeivert terrible punishment, fatal to armies and milieus to nations de- pendent upou thetn. SHOT HT mat lONCLE. A Voting Lally in it-trt7i-, Loses Pler Life in a Love A;Tair. A Salt Lake City, TJtah, despatch says :— A terrible tragedy has occurred at Park City, Litale As a young lady, Grace Fillet. ling, was Avail:lug along the railway track yesterday convening with a yourtg nun named Paradise, the young lady's uncle, Mr. Trotttn,ait, dogged the footsteps of the collide. He made a cirenit and got ahead of them, and hid iu the bush. As the pair came along Troutman jumped out and shot the girl twice, once iu the head and once in the hack. She died. instantly, Then Trout- man, realizing the enormity of his crime, sat down beside the body of his neice and shot hinself iu the head. He ie unconscious and is expected to die at any moment. Five months ago the girl absented herself from home, ancl her family thought the act was on account of Paradise, though nO ity• was suspected. B:er uncle, Troutman, told her if she went any 'nor° with Paradise be would shoot her. Yesterday be fulfill- ed his threat. A Taking Olook, A novel olcolc luta been exhibited at; St. Petersburg with a phonograph attachment that will repeat, at any hear fixed upon, such orders or announcements as may have been uommitted to its keeping. What a boon such au invention will be to the tired Mouse mother ! Itt the nursery the solemn timepiece could be nubile to say ; "Children it is time to get up ; dress quiekly, and do not dawdle.In the kitchen at au early hour it would be ready with, "Breekfitst at 8 sharp, Mary, don't forget," and in the dining.room, " Hon must start in ten min- utee or you will lose yonr train." How de- lightful it will be to 11 SVC all of these tiro some daily reminders given ye:seriously, end what a saving of worry and temper 1 The dial of this cloak of the future is, we are told, it human face from whose uncanny mouth comes the announcement of the hours, as well as any directions whioh may be left with it, It Didn't Even Wake Mtn. An Ontario farmer going to Memitoba with his family of nine children missed his 0 -year old son when the train was between Chaplean and White River. It was in the night time and the father immediately en- tered on a search for him, which revealed tho fact that the boy Waft net On the Omen. A hand oar was sent back to being in the mengled remains. The men had to go back IVa miles before coming on any traces of the boy, and when the latter Was diSCOver- ed he was not awake, Ito had stepped from Lite train whon in full motion and bad not even fallen I --- An alarming incident is reported froin Nantygio, where amen horses at Coalbrook- vale Collieries were found suffocated it Lite mine. It appears there had been e, heavy fall of the roof in the airways, and the as- eumulation of gas overwhelmed the horses, seven of whom were suffocated, Three others were fotind•in an exhausted condition, having exerted themeolves to got loose. Tho (orders, Inane and ;John Humphreye, were also overcome by the deleterious effects of tbo gas, and one of them was brought in. sensible to the pit banle. Fortin -lately safety lamps were need at the collieries, or it ter - rade explosion would have been MUM by the suddeo inrueh of gas, and awful loos of life would have enema. Live Stook in England, An Engliell correspondent writes -An entbroalc of foot, and month disease °Sou- red At the (London) Metropelit an Cottle Marlon tie. 1,110 beginning of Wee month, been imported --like 101 previous importatione of the samo kind into this eountry, froin abroad, by fereign oath,. l'he ootturrenett opens up the old eon t 0111 i 01. \i Itieb 1110 Ti111011 Ni1.1111gly hisists 111,011,1 iiht the safety ot our oWn Ilalto anti herds and t 1.e it eecetity of maintaining home supplittatif milk and meat, make it absolutely peeve. airy that we Mundtl prohibit tho 1/111101111. Oen of all live fereign animate, In thie event these who thy ns Aineritan end ;ailed Me live titIl would NU Inn. materially. But there seems to I/0 110 likelihood of en viler to that effeet issuing from the Bolted et Agrioulture. lt may be slated hero that the last visitation of the kind MIN 111 IMO, and that the ravages of the six years whit+ ended in January of Wow pate eitueed loes to the owners of sleek of no less then SI'd,i300,060 ; while in dear meat and milk it wits also estimated to have cost the con Butner another S30,000,000. Otte deems° seggests another 1 and I am reminded here that ti well- kninim Stafford. shire farmer has licen writing to the Agri- celltu red liazotte eon...toning the thineilltv of extirpating swine fever. 111' NI/MB° of the need of public 11414111X11100.1 of comperetem hole fanners anil other plinkeepere, in ell parts of the 00111dry, 111 order to induce the Preeident of the Board of Agriculture to obtahe the coneene of Parliament to its sup- pression by hie Department. Them is no doubt, he says, that; the restrictions re. (NNW° for getting rid of SAVIIIN &TOT 11.111 IWO to be much more stringent and exten- sive than those regaired for stomping out pleuroloneunionia not only beenose the former disease is a great deal more scat- tered, bet ttlso because it is far more infec- t -douse So far as we ke ow, pleuro.pnetimonia is spread only through the contact or con- tiguity of healthy animals with diseased ooes—probably by the former inhaling the breath of the latter ; whereas the virus of swine fever, like that of foot-and.mouth disease, hangs abont places in which affect- ed animals have been, and is carried from place to place by men, dogs, oath, hares, rabbits, or anything else that inoves frotii an infected spot to an uninfected one, Still the troublesome and fatal complaint oast be got ria of if all 'who are interested in it will do what they can to help the central author- ity, and, above all, refrain from worrying that authority by complaints of the incon- venience which must necessarily be incurred or a time. The eupply of Colonial !mitten still con- tinues te be immense, and that the wade is a favorite eye with the English but cher is known to al familiar with the mothocle of these gentry. A good story is told iit this connection by Mr.:Thomas Rowe, id Canter- Iniry'New Zealand, who recently visite, Euglas.I with the objeut of becoming bore acquainted with our markets Inc troy, 1 mutton. lIe reports that 1 lie leteliug het eh ers now sell New &Mond mutton under the norm of English breeds. If a leg of the best mutton is ordered from a butcher, frozen meat is sent iu nearly all casts, unless where customer is critical 1110l likes to see the meat weighed, Eveu then he is not safe. While in one of tho shops Mr. Itowe Saw a leg of latnb hung up with the caul fat, as tuned, over it, and, as it had a black trotter, it was appareetly of the Down brced. Mr Bows was talking to the owner when a ens tomer earne in for a leg of lemb. Taking hurtful than ally °thee ascot, of de dreet:en It abash' be earried oil and alit Of ;Wiley road as soon as it, lathe if meltable. Now as 10 W10101 WON. Every, road be- come, ten:unit hy the application of a rellee, and this N11100I/li11g 1)10011411 is 11114011011 retarded by the quality of the Pollee itaelf, 11 31(1 have a wheel thet lA hk. 0." nom your form Wagon, every time yoll go down the road with a tml of prod two your wagon wheels eink into t ho soft. mud, (unit rilts, mid tend to keep the road in a rough l'ottv 1!,„ inch " roller " will not profitably exert its rolling qualities until Lite intu'l 'woollies nearly dry, A wider wheel tire NT011111 /WINO your purpose omen bower ; and 111 Ito farmers of your county weeld use wheel tires three or four invitee wide, as are It ,,,L1 abroad, your dirt, mail would be rolled into piteettleti itondition 115 half the time diet le vow minima to no- complish this mettle, Next to water, nothing lo so destrunave of a good road entente, ite a heavy vehicle running ou narrow wheels. It has been proven over and over again that wheele wit I) .q -inch tires cause only onadtalf the Wellr 011 1110 r01111 111111/ TOKIIIIN from the 1180 of whoole w•I tit *Melt tires, -- - Home (Leese Making, A correspondent says : I prefer making cheese in warm weather to butter making, and its pays emelt bettor. 'This is my way of managing. We milli site cows and make O five pound theme from one milking. The morning's milking makes die largest and best cheese, using the seine quantity of nulk ; we have a hoop SIX ill/JINN &MSS, 011 foot high, then in the erchard we have t cleat nulled to a free, throe feet 11.0111 the ground ; under this we place a levee ten feet long, ttvidell will rest on the cheese which ism the hoop, on a board on the top of o keg ; necessery weights are placed on tho end of lever. Although this is e, sitilple way made by a women to press ohmic, nitultdnes.wers every purpose for ;vhich it is Now as to curd. blest we strain about eight gallons of milk into a tin can or boiler. I make it a little warmer than fresh from the cow ; then add the rennet (I use the prepared, findiag it better and cheaper), stir it web, lot stand until quite hard curd ; then cut. In a short time the whey will separate, Mit if it, is slow, heat some of the whey quite hob, pour over, stir slowly, let stand ; very soon you can clip all ofr; then salt, about as much es you would So much butter, Stir. ring it well. Spread a 110117 thin oloth over the hoops and pat the curd in ; bereft round bon,rd to fit close in hoop; then press light. ly at first, but increase to aboub forty pounds on tho end of lever ; take cheese mit and turn twice in twenty-four hones, removing cloth each thne to prevent clinging to cheese. When doue pressiug take out ; cut two round pieces of cloth, then put a band around and sew the end pieces in. This 'MAY 6, 180,2 .A. 13LIEZA.RD, (0 Ghogitslinitin Tit;»-th-1 le faratice Whet 11 Thing II c, An lenglitiliman while D werking on a a - !iota; farm /811 1.10W11 11/ dinner ono bright day in Winter. etteltlitely the sun mac 111/.. 80111.011, 1111(1 110 temperature in the them fell moveral degrees. " She's here exelaiieutl the employer. " Who's hero?" totted the woranien. " blizem•il," answered the farmer, The Euglinw eleen ene to tho win. dow tied Molted out, There WAN 111.1111./T, Walillg sound, and IL was ail dark as night. Thw e sno, inad stmof falling, was driven almig the gt•outiti by a hurriettne, It was like powdered glees, and froze fast to evel•ything teuelexl. u old breaking plow had heen left just outside the bonne " It meet be removed," said the farmer, "or it will rabic a snowdrift that may bury the house." The bInglieliman tweeted to run not nna 1)006 it. "Stop ! don't emninit suicide 1" said the farmer. He made the man put un wool -lined rublier.hoets and 11 big °newel, and then wrap up hie ears. Then lie Weil a long line to his waist, and bade him draW on thlek gitv°1'1.;you go ottt and catch hold of the iron.work en the plow •.vith here hands, your Beek will be taken off tis if you had laid hold ot reilhot. iron," said the farmer. " Now line out, throw the plow round the ruiner of the house, mid then fellotv the line back to tho house. If you can't find the plow, coma baelc ttt once. ' The Englislonee intoned the door, bolted o to where he thought. tho 111011wits, groped ),! about for a minute or two, and rushed back to the Maw. The hair that showed under the run (,f Itis fur cap was full of fvoxen snow, and his face smarted as if scalded. He made two more attempts before ha found the ;dew, When he gut back to the house, OV017 particle of wavinth seemed to have loft Ins body, and he WEIS shoved into a room WhOre them WW1 111/BLOT% that ha might thaw out gradually. The blizzard lasted three days. The barn svhere the horses and bullocks were, was covered by e mountain of snow. While the men wore digging their way to the stable door, tho horses could be heard vvhinnying, when the door was opened they were so much pleased to eee men as at the prospect of food and water. Not a morsel would they eat u n til they had drank, In one room of the house there was—the narrator estimated—a ton of snow, which had been blown in through a small crevice. There would have been much more if the hole hail been higher op, as the 011011 only stopped coining through when that on the inside had risen to the level of the crevice Lind plugged up. keeps MI the flies ana the cheese in ,. shape. Lay them on a shelf where they can have sunshine and a little shade out doors . warm enough to start. the better to them ; turn every day, Yon will find it, will be fit for use in about ten days, have written in a very simple way, but I lind from experience, every few clays, with my neighbors that they need to lie told every little thing in order to understand how to make a cheese. The curing of them may differ from many, but it is my way and they come out smooth and very yellow, although I do not use coloring. Any suggestions or improvements on the fmegoing plan are iu order. this one down the butcher went through the menet proems of praising it as prime South. down. It 11,34 weighed, paid for, and order- ed to be sent to its deetination. As soon as the easterner teas out of the way the thauk, which had been dexterously skewered cm to a leg of New Zealand lamb, was put mirk for similar use Oh another occasion, and the butcher said: with o wink to Mr. Rowe, "Can you do it like that in New Zealand?" The butcher told his visitor that he suld twenty New Zealand lambs per week, two- thirds of them in the way deeeribed, and that he made El, per carease profit. This IS not had business—for the butcher. England. 151. R, DAWES, A Use for Asafoetida. 0. W. Ea,rlee, president cf the American Jersey Cattle Club, writes: I have recently treated a neighbor's Jersey cow that was an habitual aborter, and suocooded in getting her to °eery her calf for the full time. It was apparently a desperate case, as she had lost three calves itt enccession, when seven months pregnant; but as her milk is unusually rich, even for a Jersey, hor owner was naturally omelette to hare a calf from hen It is often difficult to get an aborting cow in calf, but this cow always held to the first service. The treattneee VMS addressed to quieting the nervous system of the COW. ABILfC/CtiC111 is supposed to be an excellent drug for the purpose; so I precribed a tablespoonful of the gum, as finely pulverized as possible, mixed with 0 cut mess, twice a day, begin- ning the treatment a few days before her usual time of aborting, (mid continuing it daily for a month ; after thee oite table- spoonful a day until the full period of gesta- tion was accomplished, Should synIptoms of parturition appear, then the daily dose Was tO be immediately increased to four, tablespoonfuls. • Te drug produced the desired condition of composure ; in foot, the owner says she was &nervous cow, but her disposition was entirely changed, A °nimble physician ad- vieed me that it was it eafe drug to give in large doses. Years ago, when I had epidemio abortion in my herd, I uerid sea. hetida with groat suoteess and in one ease a cow that had lost two calves carried the en- tire term, although for the last three weeks of her fame partnrition awned imminent, daily. Duritig these three weeks we gave her four tableepoonfuls of the gum daily, I bad reason to be thankful for the remedy, sinee the eow in question was Gracile ad, which thereafter proved a regular breeder and made mo 751 poends six ounoes of but- ter in a year on moderate dairy rations, and the oaf she dropped was Signoretto, that gave me 080 pounds, six and ono -half °mime, ttl o year on seeond calf, au average daily grain ration of less then eight pounds, .A. cow threatened with abortion should be separated from the herd to swum quiet, and relaxing food withheld, though, of course, her bowolo must not bo allowed to grow oonstipated, Wide Wheal Tires, The great destroyers of thew:minion earth reacher° -water end nerrow wheel tiros, If a deep side ditch could bo mainteineci 00 molt elk 01 1110 ordinary dirt road andlcept clear so as to receive and carry oft the running water, the quality of Rio road would be frn- proved in moat oases 100 per cent; This is a point which farmers- remin to meagerly understand, or at all events, ono which they ilarely,put to practical use. Water has 1(0plea° in any road, good Of bad, It to nide Cow in Oalf. When one has to reekou upon his own dairy atoek, brought up under his own ob- servation and the records of service have been earefolly kept, 11 18 not difficult to tell whether any partinular 0050 Or heifer is in calf. But when buying stack to add to youe own dairy heed it becomes a matter of itn- portance to ascertain if an animal is preg. mutt. To tell this take a drop of milk fresh- ly drawn from her, let it fall iiito a glass of clear water, let the glass stand upon a table between the light Red the observer. If the drop of milk is readily tdisseminated through the water, the cow is not in calf. But if the drop of milk sinks to the bottom without clouding the wale,or doing so only to a very slight degree and for a short die - tame, the cow is in II calf. This is the re- sult of tho increased gravity of milk during pregnancy. A good mita cow should bring e calf every year from the time she is two it4m,If yews old till she id nine. After that as a rule a cow is not proatahle for the (Wry, Fron four to eight years of age is the most, profitable milking years of a cow. When a heifer IN WW1 her first ottlf her tulder will show gradual distension and she should be made accustomed to having it handled and robbed. If it, gots too full noar calving, milk should bo drawn oecasionally. A Cute Boy. Among the guests at a large West•end hotel was a maiden lady from the rural dis- Wets, The landlord noticed about nine o'clock every night she would come down- stairs, get a pitcher of water, and return to her room. " One night," he said, "I made BO bad as to speak to her, and nsk her why she did not ring the bell for a hall -boy to bring the water to her." " There is no bell in my room," said the lady. " No bell in your room, madam I Pray let me show you," end with that I took the pitcher of wetter in my hand ancl escorted her to hoe aparttnent. Entering the room, I pointed out to her the knob of the eleetrio boll. She gazed at it with a sort of horror, and then exelahn. ed : "Dear me I IS that a boll? Why, the hall -boy told me that it was the firmalarm signal, and I must never tench 1G except in case of fire 1" And that is how the hall -boy saved self the trouble of going for water. Evidence Enough to ConViot. " Show Inc a family where all the chil- dren are boys, and I'll show you a man. who is the forceful one, the brains of tho font- ily," Det d o rtitim I've mode a study of ib, I've looked up particular families. If you find all gibe the woman is really the head of the family. She is the one who really manages things, td.thongh she may be 11 gtdietoo7, litt,lewotneet for all that." ‘ y " Of course, I've noticed when le io prat ty evenly divided between boys and gilds the abilltbos ore, pretty evenly divided, too, By *the way, you're married, I believe 7" , AYZ."ohifdren 1" " Two. Both girlan' " Oh 1"—Moston Globe, Thom are between 1,600 and 1,700 hew- yers it Boston, with scarcely buoinems for 200, An Instrument of Torture. Paris, Frane.e, is just uew sintering tor- tures NI. the halide of one of tImse itigetitous mortals whose ntivent into tins world is seemitigly to indict as much misery upon suffering humaniey 114 /11111Si1110. This is ie 110511 automatic machine which is applied to tho common nr garden variety of the barrel organ, on instillment far worse than any designed by the Inquisition, for they tortur- ed silently, and so agitated one eense leas than the organ. Its mode of operation is as foliows : The organ grinder places the in- strument in front of the house whose in - 'name lie desires to torture, then whole up the machine like a clock, and adjourns to a neighboring cafe, out of ear Shot, of course, and there awaits developments. The organ once wound up will be ground autonettically for an hour unless stopped. After it has emitted horrible sounds for about to quarter of au hour, the people generally find they have hail enough of it, and having voted it O nuisance, send a servant out to see what cen be done to stop it. Ile reads the col. lowing notice which is placed conspicumisly on elie machine: "1 r you wieh this organ to stele Pete penny in the slot." The tienny is of course dropped in, du organ is imiet - " and et ewe like a pnultice, comes To heal the blows almond." At the oncl of about five minutes, how- ever, the oi•gan begins playing again, maims. to be stopped by the application of more coins, Advioe to Ministers. Don't drive, but lead, Don't be afraid of any man. Don't be anybody bid youeself. Don't follow anybody's advice. Don't lash the sinner instead of his sin, Don't tell all you know in one sermon. Don't feed people with nobakeci dough. Don't offer manna you have not tasted, yourself. Don't ask any one to work harder than you do yourself. Don't offer sentimental confection of in- telleotuml shavings. Don't spare the people's poukets,, for therein lie their hearts. Don't restrain too intich ; it is wel often that stem escapes. Don't expect tho Lord to be always in as big a hurey es emu two. Don't live in the third oeneury, nor in the twentieth ceutury, nor in the clouds. Don't despise the rich, dishonor the poor nor esteem yourself wiser than your breth- ren, Progrees in Balance. The great robber of moisture on the plains itt tho West Is evaporation, The activity of the winds is so great and constant that more vapor is raised from exposed water surfaces than in many regione of greater licat. The annual evaporation is seldom if ever less than four feet, and may rise to eight feet. Water etorage upon high plains where there aro no Weise, if not wholly& de- lusion, is held to be somewhat delusive, More hopeful is the expedient of deep till- age, for hidden from sun and winds in the loose soil and subsoil, the moleture will thus be preserved at the very spob where it is needed to sustain vegetation. Some experiments in conneetion with the artificial production of clouds by hunting oases of resinous matter wore lately made in Paris, but were only partially successful on account of the wind carrying the oloads latoSti5g010inthaell °Crd'iniledat:y systems of duplex telegeaphy aro generally ettid to double the capacity of a Hue, it is now quite (dearly understood that up to the present they hove been incapable of doing it, M. le Chatelier elates that by means of Ma pyrometer be has discovered that the temperatures which worm in melting ateel and itt other industrial operations have been overestimated, Vivo mon were working al Eddy's mill, Hull, P. Q., on Tuesday • afternoon, When inn frame work on which they wore Mending gaveway, anti they fell into the ndll flume, re= got sefely mit of the current, but ona named Daniolo, who drowiuxl,